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[Greco]

Meet Jaune Quick-To-See Smith

"Jaune Quick-To-See Smith grew up on the
Flathead Reservation in Montana and
traveled around the Pacific Northwest and
California with her father, who was a horse trader.
Smith decided she wanted to be an artist after
watching a film on the French painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. She painted a
goatee on her face with axle grease and
borrowed a neighbor's beret so she could
be photographed posing as the famous artist.
In 1958, Smith enrolled at Olympic College in
Bremerton, Washington. She had to take many
breaks from college in order to earn money, however,
and didn't earn her degree until 1976.
She moved to Albuquerque, where she studied
at the University of New Mexico and founded
the Grey Canyon group of contemporary
Native American artists."
(Postmodern Messenger, Exhibition
Catalogue, 2004)

Greco